In 1717 Accrington was served by the curate of Church, who preached there only once a month.

The term " balabaika " was widely used in Ukrainian language documents from 1717 to 1732.

Their numbers were boosted by the addition to their fleet of two more ships, one of which was commanded by Stede Bonnet, but toward the end of 1717 Hornigold retired from piracy, taking two vessels with him.

As a former British privateer, Hornigold attacked only his old enemies, but for his crew, the sight of British vessels filled with valuable cargo passing by unharmed became too much, and at some point toward the end of 1717 he was demoted.

" Two years after his tutoring had begun, he was sent to the Lower Grammar School at Växjö in 1717.

In 1717, the Viceroyalty of New Granada was originally created, and then it was temporarily removed, to finally be reestablished in 1739.

He met the influential early neoclassical painter Raphael Mengs ( 1728 – 1779 ), and through Mengs was introduced to the pathbreaking theories of art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717 – 1768 ).

The influence of the grateful new queen being actively exerted on Alberoni's behalf — the princesse des Ursins having been chased out — within not much more than a year Alberoni was made a duke and grandee of Spain, a member of the king's council, appointed bishop of Málaga, and in 1715 prime minister, and was made cardinal by Pope Clement XI, under pressure from the court of Spain, in July 1717.

With the resources thus gained he undertook to enable Philip V to carry out an ambitious foreign policy to undo the Treaty of Utrecht, with the aim of countering the Habsburgs and recovering Spanish possessions in Italy, where he was responsible for unwarranted invasions of Sardinia ( November 1717, strongly supported by Sardinian politician Vicente Bacallar ) and Sicily ( July 1718 ), in spite of promises made to the Pope, while pressing Spanish causes in France with the Cellamare Conspiracy.

On 11 March 1717, Telemann was appointed Kapellmeister von Haus aus at Eisenach: he fulfilled the duties of the position by regularly sending new music from Frankfurt to Eisenach.

It was made independent in 1717 from the Safavid dynasty by the Afghans until 1736 when the Hotaki dynasty was defeated by the Afsharids, which finally became part of the Durrani Empire in 1747.

Daniel Purcell ( d. 1717 ), the youngest of the brothers, was also a prolific composer who wrote the music for much of the final act of The Indian Queen after Henry Purcell's death.

Henry Middleton ( 1717 – June 13, 1784 ) was a plantation owner and public official from South Carolina.

Henry Middleton was born in 1717 near Charleston, South Carolina to Arthur Middleton ( 1681 – 1737 ) and Susan Amory, on the family plantation, " The Oaks ".

In 1717 Manchester was merely a market town of 10, 000 people, but by 1911 it had a population of 2. 3 million.

La Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne Réformée ( 1717 ) was a controversial treatise which in its four parts attacks the characteristic doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church ; it was translated into English, for the use of the Roman Catholics of his diocese of Dromore, by Dr. Ralph Lambert, afterwards bishop of Meath.

* Elizabeth was born about 1624 and died in Little Compton, Rhode Island on May 31, 1717.

Similar examples were procured of Catharine Linck in Prussia in 1717, executed in 1721 ; Swiss Anne Grandjean married and relocated with her wife to Lyons, but was exposed by a woman with whom she had had a previous affair and sentenced to time in the stocks and prison.

Pierre Allix ( 1641 – 3 March 1717 ) was a French Protestant pastor and author.

Although George I ( 1714 – 1727 ) attended Cabinet meetings at first, after 1717 he withdrew because he did not speak English and was bored with the discussions.

The first noted use of " serendipity " in the English language was by Horace Walpole ( 1717 – 1797 ).

* 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria ( not actually born until 1717 ).

Original image by Lauthier 1717

Mesnager ( 1717 ), in which he impersonates Nicolas Mesnager, the French plenipotentiary who negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht ( 1713 ) and A Continuation of the Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy ( 1718 ), a satire on European politics and religion, professedly written by a Muslim in Paris.

* 1717 – A sermon on " The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ " by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.

He brought his collection of fossils and stones to the Vatican, where he studied them at leisure, compiling the results in a manuscript, which was published posthumously by the Vatican at Rome in 1717 as Metallotheca.

In 1717, Bulavin was sacked by the Crimean Tatars and Kuban.

Philip quickly revived Spanish ambition ; taking advantage of the power vacuum caused by Louis XIV's death in 1715, Philip announced he would claim the French crown if the infant Louis XV died and attempted to reclaim Spanish territory in Italy, precipitating the War of the Quadruple Alliance in 1717.

* 1704 – 1717: One Thousand and One Nights translated into French by Antoine Galland.

From 1479, it was ruled by the Kingdom of Spain until 1713 and between 1717 – 1718.

Palermo was also managed by Savoy between 1713 – 1717 and 1718 – 1720 and Austria between 1720 – 1734.

The Eulogium ( dated 1176 or later ) was printed by Edmond Martène in Thesaurus novus anecdotum ( Paris, 1717 ), and by Jacques Paul Migne's in Patrologiae Latinae Cursus Completus ( 1844-1855 ), vol.

The eruptions of Mount Asama mark the span of Japan's recorded history, including: 2009, 2008, 2004, 2003, 1995, 1990, 1983, 1982, 1973, 1965, 1961, 1958 – 59, 1953 – 55, 1952, 1952, 1950 – 51, 1949, 1947, 1946, 1944 – 45, 1938 – 42, 1935 – 37, 1934, 1934, 1933, 1931 – 32, 1930, 1929, 1929, 1927 – 28, 1924, 1922, 1920 – 21, 1919, 1918 ?, 1917, 1916, 1915, 1914, 1909 – 14, 1908, 1908, 1907, 1907, 1906, 1905 ?, 1904, 1903, 1902, 1902, 1900 – 01, 1899, 1899, 1894, 1889, 1879, 1878 ?, 1875, 1869, 1815, 1803, 1803, 1783, 1779 ?, 1777, 1776, 1769, 1762, 1755, 1754, 1733, 1732, 1731, 1729, 1729, 1728, 1723, 1723, 1722, 1721, 1720, 1719, 1718, 1717, 1711, 1710, 1708 – 09, 1706, 1704, 1703, 1669, 1661, 1661, 1660, 1659, 1658, 1657, 1656, 1655, 1653, 1652, 1651, 1650 ?, 1649, 1648, 1648, 1647, 1645, 1644, 1609, 1605, 1604, 1600, 1598, 1597, 1596, 1596, 1595 ?, 1591, 1590, 1532, 1528, 1527, 1518, 1427 ?, 1281, 1108, 887, 685.

* 1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.

Modern deep diving submarines are derived from the bathyscaphe, which in turn was an evolution of the diving bell.

Safety conditions were also a major factor with the installation of a decompression chamber on site, along with a diving bell and a safety diver for each actor.

Alexander the Great, according to medieval legends, used a submersible or diving bell in 332 BC, during the siege of Tyre.

* 1531: Guglielmo de Lorena dives on two of Caligula's sunken galleys using a diving bell from a design by Leonardo da Vinci.

* 1616: Franz Kessler built an improved diving bell.

In 1978, Pickens lent his voice to theme park Silver Dollar City as a character named Rube Dugan, for a ride called " Rube Dugan's Diving Bell ", The diving bell was a simulation ride that took passengers on a journey to the bottom of Lake Silver and back.

In 1689, Papin suggested that a force pump or bellows could maintain the pressure and fresh air inside a diving bell.

In 1789 Smeaton applied an idea by Denis Papin, by using a force pump to maintain the pressure and fresh air inside a diving bell.

The New York Times carried articles describing Beebe's plans, which called for a diving bell with the shape of a cylinder.

* Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 )-In 1690, Halley patented the diving bell.

* " Bathysphere ," a political thriller about a scientist and a dictator sharing a deep sea diving bell.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel lowered a diving bell from a boat to repair the hole at the bottom of the river, throwing bags filled with clay into the breach in the tunnel's roof.

* Edmond Halley devises a diving bell.

Reclaim systems allow the used gas to be returned to the surface or ( more often ) diving bell for re-use after removing the carbon dioxide and making up the oxygen.

In the diving helmet, a principle similar to that of the wet diving bell is used, where compressed air is provided to the helmet.

Surface supplied diving refers to divers using equipment supplied with breathing gas using a diver's umbilical from the surface, either from the shore or from a diving support vessel sometimes indirectly via a diving bell.

Similar connections are provided for attachment to the diving bell, if used, or to the surface gas panel and communications equipment.

Bell diving bailout options: For bell dives there is no requirement for decompression gas, as the bell itself carries bailout gas.